Most of the time I listen to Music while coding. Blues,Jazz or Progressive Rock/Metal is the best for coding.("Liquid Tension" is for when a lot of coding needs to be done!!) But you have to listen to it with headphones, so no other sounds distract you from coding.

I have the same experience. VS2005 Crashed at least once a day. vs2005 had a lot of problems with the winform designers, sometimes it just crashed, somtimes it gave a lot of designer errors. I still remember the days of vs2005 having to clean/rebuild, close vs2005 and rebuild before I could open a form designer. In VS 2008 I have no problems whith the designers in winforms. On the other hand, the designers for asp.net are so slow, it is better to use notepad if you want to edit your webpages. It should be fixed in sp1 of 2008, I hope it is true.